(This league will not attempt to begin during the draft for the DH $52M League)

An Auction league should be an intriguing concept to try here on WIS.·

In an AUCTION format, each owner uses his allocated budget of $100 to bid on players, thereby affording each owner an OPPORTUNITY at EVERYPLAYER.

The Strategic component of budget and spending and assigning dollar values to great players presents a real challenge.

Owners must account for more variables than a snake draft, because the draft becomes an interactive COMPETITION against all owners in the league.

AUCTION drafts require AGGRESSIVE SAVVY owners – the PASSIVE nature of waiting for a turn would be a liability.

Owners must be willing to price enforce and up-bid players he doesn’t actually want, to punish other owners while simultaneously risk punishing himself should he accidentally place the winning bid.

The more experience and knowledge owners should benefit more so than a casual participants here as WhatIfSports.

League Set-up and RULES

Each Franchise starts with $100

Two week Auction lasting approximately 2 weeks.

PLAYERS

All players are eligible to be bid upon. No CLONES, ROOKIES, of Waiver Wire.

The first AUCTION league may benefit from not having a traditional salary limit, such as $47 or 52 Million. I’m not against going with a traditional salary cap if it helps fill 24 owners, but will tentatively start with no traditional cap – only the $100 million Auction dollars.

Players with Bids are awarded to Teams and are exclusive.

Any player in WIS may be bid upon or nominated for bids if not currently listed.

A Master Alpha based list will help owners locate players and allocate players into an initial lists by distributing players into EIGHT LOTS.

Players not initially found in the Master Alpha List can be nominated and Bid on at any time – In Lot Eight.

The minimum spent on each of the 12 players is $1.

LOTS

I took the top 150 players (from avg. draft order of past 5 ODL League).

Those players were divided into FIVE groups of 30 players, thus making the first FIVE LOTs.

Lots SIX – SEVEN – EIGHT : An additional 250 players were divided among the next three lots (6-7-8).

LOT 8 contains some predetermined players; players not initially listed that are nominated by an Owner; and all players not purchased during the previous SEVEN Lots.)

BIDS

·Any player may be bid on at any time during the AUCTION.

·OWNERS can bid on any player in any lot as the auction unfolds.

·A submitted bid cannot be reduced or changed by the owner – it is final.

·When a LOT closes – the bid is Final, and the player and Salary is awarded to the highest biding owner.

·Bids should be whole dollar amounts – No ‘change’ or fractions.

·Bids must be made in the appropriate Topic Thread for the LOT containing the player. The Master Topic Thread contains a Master Alpha List that determines a players corresponding LOT.

·Bids should not be in exceeding $100 in total. An owner should not bid more that the amount his team has left. Do not ‘bounce a check’ by bidding and then winning and being responsible for more than $100.

·The commissioner will not aintain or conduct proxy lists. Bid high if you want a payer, or give ‘marching orders’ to a buddy.

SCHEDULE

Open Bid: Day 1: Bid on any of the players in any of the Lots. 8 AM of day one bids become official.

Your main responsibility is to not bid over $100 for your team. Do not try to float above that amount with excessive bids with the expectation that rival owners may eventually top your bids that exceed $100 in total for your team.

Owners will not be awarded players that exceed a $100 amount for the team.

Bids that push over the amount would ideally be caught and amended before a Lot ends.

In the event a Lot ends with an Owner in excess of $100 for the team, the trasaction would see the last player bid voided and the player would be placed in Lot 8.

Ensure that all 12 player slots will have at least $1 minimum allocated for their salary.

Questions and Comments should be addressed as soon as possible to ensure a fair and fluid Auction and League.

Owners are more than welcome to VOLENTEER to pitch in a help this run smoothly. Taking over a particular LOT would be helpful. A volunteer owner may be in charge updating bids for the 30 players in a LOT. This is flexible idea. While I think I can handle it to some degree – the expected bid volume and keeping the tote board updated for each lot may be a daunting task.